User:Salix alba/History
My History through wikilinks
- Born and grew up in Harpenden and St Albans, O and A levels at St. George's School, Harpenden
- BSc University of Kent at Canterbury, lived in Canterbury and Hern Bay
- MSc University of Manchester lived in Manchester
- PhD University of Liverpool lived in Liverpool, lived in Toxteth near Sefton Park
- Postdoc University of Leeds lived in Leeds, taught in Saltash
- Moved to Lerryn near Lostwithiel Cornwall to work with Plants for a Future a Permaculture project, especially there Devon site near Ashwater.
Mathematicians[edit]
- Peter Giblin my PhD supervisor.
- Andrew Zisserman and the late Ian R. Porteous my Ph.D. examiners.
- C. T. C. Wall - both worked in the singularity theory group at University of Liverpool, helped him in mathematical visualization work.
- Drew some pictures for Mary Rees [1]
- Met Vladimir Arnold, Bernard Morin
- Worked with Thomas Banchoff on a few graphics projects.
- Was a post doc working with Kanti Mardia on Statistical shape analysis
- Had the displeasure of attending a course by Chisholm on Vectors in three-dimensional space which seemed to consist of him reading aloud from the book
Activism[edit]
- Earth First! helped organised one of the first UK actions in Liverpool
- Never participated in Earth Liberation Front actions, but was at the meeting where the movement started
- Participated in Direct Action at Twyford Down, M11 link road protest, Manchester International Airport
- Stayed at Faslane Peace Camp
- Chained my self to the ralings outside the House of Commons and later arrested without charge. (Two other arrests without charge).
- ICI served an injunction against me.
- Participated in Liverpool and Leeds Critical Mass bike rides.
- Played british bulldog with the guards at Stonehenge on the Winter solstice
- Met Angie Zelter and took her place on an action
- Knew Derek Wall another friend of a friend.
- Worked with George Marshall (environmentalist) during the Earth First! roadtrip
- Stood as a local councilor for the Green Party in Tuebrook and Stoneycroft and Riverside. Never won but got more votes than the tory candidate.
Random[edit]
- Gave a lift to Stephen Gough, the naked rambler hitchhiking
- Called Richard Dawkins smug in a public lecture
- Been backstage with Motörhead
- Volunteered on the Ffestiniog Railway
- Short exchance of emails with Scott Mills following him mentioning that people were adding silly comments to his wikipedia article.
- Best mate of mine used to live in the same house (but different flats) as Margi Clarke, met her a few times.
- Also knew Janice Long and helped a bit on Crash FM.
- Played D&D with Dino Dini while at Uni
- Had corespondence with my local MP first Colin Breed and then Sheryll Murray